Topical Fellowship - Education

Graduation season is upon us. Many saints will be leaving a familiar environment of the full-time training or college to start a new phase of life. A common concern for saints starting a job or graduate school program is how to relate to their new colleagues or classmates. Some may simply be worried about the negative influence of worldly peers. Others may have an aspiration to contact others for the sake of the gospel, but feel uncertain about doing so with close, long-term acquaintances. Yet others may feel limited by professional regulations or academic mores regarding overt gospel preaching. How then can a graduate student

Romans 14:7-8: “For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself; for whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or we die, we are the Lord’s.” After Brother Lee discusses who should be full-time in chapter 7 of Elder’s Training, Book 8, he goes on to explain exactly what it means to serve the Lord full-time in chapter 8. The real meaning of being full-time is to live to Him. To go full-time does not mean to drop your job and become a preacher. It does not mean

Many of us have a heart for the Lord and His recovery, but may be discouraged by our circumstances because we are “stuck” in school or work, while others are “freed” from these constraints to serve the Lord in a full-time way.  These thoughts often stem from the concept many of us share that only those who have dropped their jobs are serving the Lord full-time. Brother Witness Lee addresses this concept in chapter 7 of Elder’s Training Book 8: Romans 12:1 says, “I beg you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing to God, which is

And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.  And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar.  And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the surface of the whole earth.  – Genesis 11:3-4 In Message 36 of the Life-Study of Genesis, Brother Witness Lee makes it quite clear that the building of the tower of Babel is a vivid picture of what is happening in society today, both in school and